Easy Apple Berry Crumble

Old-fashion apple crumble is great dessert comfort food but add some berries with a crispy crumble top, and you will have your new signature dessert—quick and easy.

Table of Contents

• 🍮Cobblers, Crumbles, vs. Crisps
• FAQs
• 📖Crisp/Crumble Recipes
• 🖼️Step-by-Step Photo Instructions
• 📖Full Recipe

Introduction

Quick and easy with only a 10-minute preparation. A can of pie filler, a couple of bags of frozen berries, add in a few pantry ingredients gets you a dessert you will feel proud to serve to friends and family. And lucky you, it is so simple to pull off.

Everybody needs a recipe or two that just works where you can keep the ingredients on hand and comes together in just a few minutes. And extra points if that happens to be a great dessert.

I started Food Networks Berry Cookie Cobbler. Now I try not to do many "semi-homemade" recipes, but I probably should do more, especially after this one.

While it looked really good, the main downfall was the topping of crumbled-up refrigerated cookie dough. While nice, it could be better with almost no work and some pantry ingredients.

I substituted a simple crumble-top from my apple crumble pie, and we went from good to great. I love that topping.

My Rating

A solid five.

🍮Cobblers, Crumbles, vs. Crisps

Cobblers have a biscuit or cake topping.

Crumbles and crisps are commonly used interchangeably. The differentiating factor is crisps have oats in the topping and crumble do not. This seems to be not widely accepted. So I call this a crumble, but if you prefer, use crisp.

FAQs

📖Crisp/Crumble Recipes

Easy Apple Crisp

Simple Crock Pot Apple Crisp

Berry Crisp for Two

🖼️Step-by-Step Photo Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°.

Prepare the crumble topping. Combine one cup flour, ½ cup brown sugar, and ½ teaspoon cinnamon. Melt one stick (½ cup) butter in the microwave and mix it into the dry mixture.

In a large mixing bowl, combine two 12 oz bags of frozen mixed berries, one 21 oz can of apple pie filling, ⅓ cup sugar, and 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon.

Pour berry mixture into an eight by eight or nine by six baking dish. Top with the crumb mixture.

Bake for 45 minutes until golden brown.

Allow to cool for a few minutes and severe warm with ice cream.

📖Full Recipe

Easy Apple Berry Crumble

From Dan Mikesell AKA DrDan

Old-fashion apple crumble is great dessert comfort food but add some berries with a crispy crumble top and you will have your new signature dessert—quick and easy.

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Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 45 minutes

Total Time: 55 minutes

Servings #/Adjust if desired 6

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Ingredients

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Crumble topping

• ▢ 1 cup flour
• ▢ ½ cup brown sugar
• ▢ ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• ▢ ½ cup butter - one stick

Filling

• ▢ 21 oz apple pie filling - one can
• ▢ ⅓ cup sugar
• ▢ 1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon - less is ok
• ▢ 24 oz mixed berries - frozen two bags

Instructions

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• Preheat oven to 350°.
  
• Prepare crumble topping. Combine one cup flour, ½ cup brown sugar, and ½ teaspoon cinnamon. Melt one stick (½ cup) butter in the microwave and mix into the dry mixture.
  
• In a large mixing bowl, combine two 12 oz bags of frozen mixed berries, one 21 oz can of apple pie filling, ⅓ cup sugar, and 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon.
  
• Pour berry mixture into an eight by eight or nine by six baking dish. Top with the crumb mixture.
  
• Bake for 45 minutes until golden brown.
  
• Allow to cook for a few minutes and severe with ice cream.
  

See the step-by-step photos in the post. Some recipes have an option to display the photos here with a switch above these instructions.

Recipe Notes

Pro Tips

1. This works fine in an 8 by 8 or 9 by 6 baking dish. You can use a 9 inch round also. A 9 by 9 will just be thinner but taste fine.
2. A double recipe will fit nicely in a 9 by 13 cake pan.
3. Use the pie filling and fruit you want.
4. Best served warm with ice cream.
5. If you don't want to do the crumble topping, then use one tube of sugar cookie dough crumbled up.
6. Good refrigerated for 2-3 days and frozen for 2-3 months.
7. You can use fresh apples of your choice. You will need about 1 ½ pounds—about 4 medium to large apples—prep and coat with an additional ⅓ cup of sugar and ½ teaspoon of cinnamon.

To adjust the recipe size:

You may adjust the number of servings in this recipe card under servings. This does the math for the ingredients for you. BUT it does NOT adjust the text of the instructions. So you need to do that yourself.

Nutrition Estimate

Calories : 495 kcalCarbohydrates : 89 gProtein : 3 gFat : 16 gSaturated Fat : 10 gPolyunsaturated Fat : 1 gMonounsaturated Fat : 4 gCholesterol : 43 mgSodium : 42 mgPotassium : 99 mgFiber : 9 gSugar : 60 gVitamin A : 650 IUVitamin C : 3.3 mgCalcium : 90 mgIron : 2.5 mg

Serving size is my estimate of a normal size unless stated otherwise. The number of servings per recipe is stated above. This is home cooking, and there are many variables. All nutritional information are estimates and may vary from your actual results. To taste ingredients such as salt will be my estimate of the average used.

Course :Dessert

Cuisine :American

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Originally Published June 26, 2016. Updated with expanded options, refreshed photos, and a table of contents to help navigation.